and considering they're pretty much solidly booked for the next few months and their album just came out, it just seems like a really bad time to announce it. I honestly think it was a joke (or at least i hope so).

i mean, laura-mary may just be having her period or something... but saying "this is our last gig ever. ever." about ten times in one gig, then just walking off stage in the middle of a song, leaving your sole other band mate looking like a twat to finish off the song himself seems a bit final to me.

It seems like quite a shame, i was reading an article in NME yesterday which talked about how close they were. I spent some tiem afterwards thinking how unknown it is to meet someone who sincerely does know you inside out and holds the same values and ideas for the future.

they were just playing 'surf song', which is a b-side on their latest single.

i'm not saying they've split up for a joke. i just made this thread because, from what i saw at that gig, it looked pretty much like they'd split. but, y'know, they might not. i doubt Omgz1one knows as much as i do - unless, of course, she had just spoken to the band who said to her "it was all a joke".

seeing the arctic monkeys form a new band or something on jools holland but seeing blood red shoes 'split' bursts my bubble similar. will almost certainly not be going to the Children's Festival the day before Field Day For Grown-Ups now (I'm not even sure if they were confirmed, just, the line up is awful...).

i heard it too. laura mary said 'this might be our last ever gig' about half way through the set. then she said near the end that it was their 'last ever gig' as well. i was confused. it didn't sound like a joke, but maybe they've just got a very dry sense of humour that i don't get.

The gig itself was very good but as has been said Laura-Mary did kind of storm off during the last song but I'm sure other people have said they've seen this happen before so probably just part of the show.

then realised their album was one of the most one dimensional efforts of recent times. then laura/steve/their/management ignored all my requests for an interview at a local gig. then i read this thread. </smug>

anyone who knows us knows that we're the kind of people who are pretty straight talking, we say what we feel when we feel it. we've been on tour for what feels like an eternity, and that coupled with the volume of work we have to do alongside playing (we're still making all the decisions about every release, artwork, every live advert or single ad, laura still designs 100% of the artwork, i'm still mixing all the recordings, we book our own hotels, write our own bulletins and mailouts, do a LOT of interviews) - basically we have a lot on. we are stressed. and we are utterly losing our minds because that's coupled with the fact we spend 24 hours a day in each other pockets which isn't that healthy.

so what i'm saying is, that's how we felt by the end of friday. it's not how we felt in the morning. this was not a publicity stunt, or a joke, or anything of the sort, it was us being 100% open about how we felt. then the next day we felt a bit silly as we sorted our shit out (tho we're still losing the plot). we're genuinely sorry for confusing anyone. we have every intention of making a lot more music, starting with the new EP we're just finishing writing and want to release later in the year.

on another note, the level of sexist bullshit on this board really saddens me. i can handle criticism and the inevitable "oh they were shit anyways" lines, but we're not living in the fucking dark ages. stuff about being a "moody bitch" or "she needs a damn good (censored)" (i don't even want to imagine what was originally written) is way out of line and as human beings you should know better. seriously it's fucking disgusting and it doesn't just happen on here it's other sites too.

my last post was only meant as a joke, which quite possibly didn't translate as well on the boards as it did in my slightly immature thought processes. The (censored) bit was the way i typed it, i don't think DIS actually censors anything on here...

where he tells lynette from desperate housewives/the tranny from transamerica that he's really turned on when they argue, and then they all have to do sexual harassment training with van the "facilitator"?